I've had problems with Comcast for some time now. We pay for a 50Mb cable (business) feed that appears to be used very little, less than 8Mb on average. I can see people come in and begin to work early as 5AM and people continue to arrive but traffic actually goes down starting around 8AM. I do not believe less work is being done (on purpose anyway) rather that Comcast is bottlenecking my bandwidth in the two hops in the local office. I suspect as other small businesses and families (especially in summer) load up the network with entertainment traffic and we are choked off. We have a remedy for this coming but I suspect any other small business paying for "business" access with no alternative feels the pain. It also explains that our folks seem to have their best response early in the morning but after working hours there is no improvement because evening indoors entertainment is in demand. Comcast is an entertainment network for the locals and so I expect any QOS/preferred traffic would be streaming TV/Video, game, and Audio which they sell. I would reason that our larger data file transfer (cloud storage and other networks) and file/record locking seems to fall victim to entertainment traffic preference since that is where they make their money. My most recent suspicion is that some have a need for Youtube and other media providers for technical training, howto, Manufacturer information, and other needs. I open access (a whole 'nother ball of wax) and get the clickable still images (yimg) to come in slowly but when the actual video is started she spins forever. A test this morning showed the specific user I am working with could finally start the video stream but it was still sluggish at 7AM. So the question is, with Net Neutrality dead, is Comcast throttling Youtube, essentially a competitor? With regard to opening up Youtube it seems there has been a constant "cat and mouse" game for the months since Sep 2017 when I started here over streaming, still image content moving to "cdn" content delivery networks (Akamai, et.al.) servers and some changing of domains into "streaming video" and "content delivery" groups for content filtering. Don't get me started on Mickysoft update content... I begin to think it would be handy for us to have a continually updated Youtube and Microsoft Update (and whatever) permit whitelists that we could contribute to and use when opening service to an individual and/or workstation. How much of this is right and wrong? Thanks for any constructive input. theant
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